What has happened to a society in which this can happen?
Leanne Shepherd and Lucy Jarrett, both 32, are close friends. They work as police officers, but on different shifts. For a long time, they babysat for each other, an arrangement that suited them perfectly and enabled them to continue their careers. The authorities recently told them, however, that their arrangement was illegal. If they did not desist, they would face prosecution.There was a not dissimilar story in the US recently from Michigan in which a woman was in trouble because families would drop their kids off at her house in the morning, as the bus stop was right out front. She'd take care of 2 or 3 kids for up to an hour, which allowed the parents to get to work on time. Apparently, she's running an illegal child minding facility.
Why? Because they exceeded the permitted time to babysit without having received professional training in such matters as resuscitation and child psychology. Moreover, the state considers their mutual babysitting a potentially taxable economic benefit. It does not matter that the arrangement was entirely reciprocal and voluntary. British citizens may no longer make such private agreements among themselves.
One of the nastiest aspects of this little story is that the authorities were alerted to the two women’s terrible crime by one of their neighbors. An increasingly intrusive state engenders an increasingly nasty population of secret informers.
The world is going slowly crazy.
(Nothing Follows)
4 comments:
One hardly knows what to say, Jack. It's clear that our relationship with our own government is inexorably changing for the worse.
--Krumhorn
Jack,
This is really the middle part (as opposed to the "thin end") of the wedge.
The UK is completely toast.
Despite my utter dislike and distrust of psuedo-Nazis like the BNP, the Tories are (like Turnbull in Australia) trying to out-green the Labour Party, and therefore we have the two sides of politics joining in an unholy alliance.
I don't believe that the BNP will have the support of the "silent majority".
If they do, it really leads to a slippery slope, doen't it?
Kaboom,
The other irony is that apart from its immigration policy, the BNP's policies are almost exactly the same as Labour's. Unfortunately, the Tories are as wet as a tropical monsoon so who knows what they're going to do...
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